The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-08
PERSONAL.

BUFFALO BILL is just 40 years Of age.
DIxEY says actors who please the women are
| successful
| ROBERT GARRETT has postponed his trip to
Europe in oD1er to perfect certain railroad
| deals"
! Mr.. PARNELL does not improve in health. and
it is said that he is suffering from cancer OF
| the stomach.
| REV. HUGH O. PENTEcosT the new Georgite
! apostle, says: There is not much use trusting
| God when few men own the earth. "
Word comes of the death of Gabriel Sylvester
| Chouteau, of St Louis, second son of the
founder of that city, He was 90 years old.
]. w. LoNGLEY, Attorney General of Nova
| Scotia is an ardent advocate of a CONNER
cial union of the Dominion and the United
States.
SARAH BERNHARDT is said TO have had sufficient
faith in the future of Chicago to invest S1S 500 in
real estate in that city during her recent engage
ment there
THE antiBeecher faction in Plymouth church
pronounce the r1Imor that Mrs. Stowe S son is to
succeed Mr. Beecher "a delightful little bit of
rot whatever that may be.
THE New York Herald says Gen Fairchild
has been running his palsy factory night and
day with the hope of throwing curses around
promiScuousy. Now they are drug on the
market.
REV. f. WALPoLE WARREN, the new rector of
Holy Trinity New York, who has been called"
from England is the son of the author of Ten
Thousand Year, the legal novelwhic caused
such a sensation some years ago.
Miss ALICE FREEMAN. President of Wellesley
College, has received $50 applications from
young women wishing 20 enter Wellesley next
year There are only 100 places possible at
present. Miss Freeman will only be absent one
week during the summer from the college.
Miss VAN zASDT charged $40 each for the
tickets to the private concert she gave in Paris
for the benefit of the Opera Comique fire suf
ferers. That is the highest price ever paid for
admission toa concert in Paris, but enough peo-
pie paid 1t TO crowd the large rooms.
THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH Of Austria has Joined
the band OF royal authors. While visiting
Mahadia she went TO the summit of the peak
called in her honor, Elizabethen Hone, and was
ON the spot inspired to write "a poem on the
smailnesS and vanity of earthly dignities..
TIRE Bishop Of Ossory. who has composed a
hymn for the Queens jubilee, won prize for
poem on the Queens accession in 1887. II is told
that on that occasion, eager to learn the result
o. ms effort be rushed into the presence OF the
dons without bis cap and gown, for which breach
OF discipline he was fined at the very moment of
hearing of his triumph.
MRs. JAMES Brown POTTER has been drawing
good houses at tine Gaiety Theatre since the first
hight OF her second engagement in London. In
spite OF the weakness OF the play, the audiences
have been enthusiastic The merits and dement's
of her acting are warmly discussed in London
society. Clement Scott is most tiattering in his
praise Of her ability If the plucly woman could
but ind suitable play she might win very
great success
ONE of Gen. Grants best answers 70 any ques
ton was his reply 10 William Nj. Evarts who in
speaking about Mr.. Bescher asked: why is 1t,
General that little fault in clergyman at
tracts more notice than great fault in an ord
nary MANI Perhaps" said the General,
thonRhtfully, 1t Is for the same reason that
slight shadow passing over the pure snow is
more readily seen than river Of dirt on the
black earthly